Short Subtlety Poems

My heart is racing,
merely by the thought of his touch-
Power and subtlety....

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society’s scars
subversive subtlety---
soulless spirits seek

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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The water flows from the tap,
Over the translucent  cube.
No function, and no reason.
Perhaps, the waters over the eyes....

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Gentle silhouette
A contrast to her fierce heart,
Moving gracefully
Yet her beauty's conquering,
Symphony of subtlety...

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"Subtlety implying that ones self control is not for sale, 
when instigated to react poorly, 
unveils true noteworthy character and grace."...

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To the lion the crown of the jungle 
And to the monkey all cunning Intriguing
 the cat, the subtlety 
Watch the faithful friend dog
  Ah! A man ... an unfaithful being ..!...

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To the lion the crown of the jungle
  And to the monkey all cunning
   Intriguing the cat, the subtlety
   Watch the faithful friend dog
   A man... an unfaithful being...!...

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To the lion the crown of the jungle
  And to the monkey all cunning
   Intriguing the cat, the subtlety
  watch the faithful friend dog
  everyone knows well that
  A man... an unfaithful being...!...

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conjures up images

demonstrative

like raping the earth,

women and the world

stripping all things

human bare

but no

subtlety will seduce

your senses like

slowly boiling a frog

you'll come

awake in Hades....

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 Memories flood across my heart
Memories from which I can't part
Memories I cherish
Memories I wish
Would become my Reality
After I finish
With my Subtlety
And my Mystery
In this Illusory
Yet, Sensory,
World, full of Fancy!...

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Oh Ode, my Ode, I adore you
Splendid your structure, tight your form
You glow in your flow until people forget
your power.  Shine on, gentle Ode
your prosperity's still roughly teething
on you beauty your sultriness
your wisdom subtlety beaming....

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The earth is brittle under heel

in quiet little ways

But leaves are bragging

bright with flame

as we watch the seasons change        




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"Season.....Gogyoka"
11/3/12
Resubmitted for Brian Strand's Contest:207...

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harmony
    &
      unity
reverberate
          as
             motifs,
interweave
      &
        oscillate
in abrupt
           shifts:
doubt
     &failure
disperse
     as tenderness,
breathes
      as largesse
freely,
frankly
in
   diverse
       subtlety...

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Wonder as the sentiment of a conjuring
Subtlety akin to morning
Glories, fall as snow remarked
In solemn note, a veil to reckon
Alighted through the spirit so chilling
The familiar light as a darkened compact
But as christening the bounty of hall
Would wait appealing to the homily
As done the dancing of the mood...

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Rome, NY

Unto these schemes renew
The temper held in sway;
This time, listen, like the murmur
Of your heart; so tender,
So subtlety does it keep time with
The Universal notion:
If Angels cross the oceans,
if Devils soar the skies;
if solace seeps the surface,
How shall you travel?
Lightly,
I am told,
Nightly growing old,
Accept it....

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cryptic calls careen off canyon walls
a study in subtlety seemingly sold
for half an hours hatred and hostility
no need for nonchalant nobility
holding doors for wholesale whores
what a world of want and waste
wasting and wanting what we will
desolate dreams deemed delightful for the damned
and i am left to wonder
what have i done to deserve this?...

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Crowned poet,
posthumous Queen 
of the private world, 
you explored
every subtlety of the soul
and mapped the wonder
of existence 
to its last drawn breath.

What price did you pay
deep in your alabaster chambers,
charting the course 
of a nameless presence 
stretched across eternity, 
giving it a home 
in the exquisite vessel 
of your words....

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The breath of the demon kids 
subtlety sweetens the air around mortal men.
Strike down! Strike down!
Their hateful hearts a'bound!
Bless them in a pool of frowns,
all 'kind can do is sin.
The gods among us fight the faze,
and see the world a'grin.
Bite down! Bite down!
The flesh of life is fresh,
knowledge most bitter only a glaze,
yea, dip said dope again....

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Take a step in or a step out
How I linger, subtlety my game
Ready to change the whole frame
Each time you step in or step out
So much is different over the line
Hold your breath, are you ready this time?
Only a step in or a step out
Lives can intermingle and separate too
Don't underestimate passing through...

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I need you more then a dream
More then viewing on a screen
I need flesh with a soul
I need your sweet body to hold

Color me with shades of your soul
Patiently help me lose all control
Entrapped into a fire by your flame
Melt me as I call out your name

Two alone in a stream of light
Flesh and spirit woven in delight
Within a realm of subtlety
Into yourself you color me...

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veiled in moonlight
I see your contour
I draw your lines 
as they oscillate
with every breath
barely visible
if not for the subtlety 
of your steady
and unfaltering 
rhythmic breathing
like a soothing wave
undulating with your pulse
sweet silent murmur



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on February 9, 2019 for STANDARD CONTEST 175 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Malady gently receives the hand of familiarity
and began a dance of deception.
Anguish bowed politely to oppression,
when vulnerability appeared.
Destruction cut in,
angering her partner subtlety.
Lies twirled in lovers arms, 
torment and misery moved together gracefully in unison.
Deceit caressed passion,
while vile dreams are crushed under the enchanting waltz.
Pageantry choreographed with devil's imagination....

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Christ’s power dwells in the sun with ship’s drums 
In blazing glory without shame 
Showing its greatness even when dawn comes 
To blaze greater than any man-made flame 
This sun gives wisdom her fame with the stars 

Christ’s wisdom dwells in the moon uprightly 
Wisdom does not shine as brightly 
Subtlety and humbleness shine as whole 
Unveiling how it shines greater nightly 
Than the electric workings of man’s soul...

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knock knock
who's there
tax collector

knock knock
who's there
tax collector

knock knock

knock knock

knock knock
tax collector

shhh maybe
he'll go away

(later that day
too agoraphobic
to go out and
play came
another rapping
almost rasping
upon my
chamber door)

knock knock
knock knock
knock knock

(a voice using
a bullhorn sighed
then said) i
know you're in
there

(no subtlety
has Death)...

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occasional
   ambiguous studiously
                          careless
  provocative in
      retrospection

a pretence of subtlety
  evoking
     paradoxical frisson
in
flowing graphics

graceful
        supremely refined
        so effortless&
               sophisticated

enchantment     evoked
then
     crystallized
        into memorable images
contemporary
  self assured            immaculate
little fantisies...

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